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Flash USB drives

tinpanalley

tinpanalley

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Is there any particular brand of USB flash drive that is considered better than others right now? Last I checked, Corsair was the way to go. Any other thoughts? Form doesn't matter to me, though I prefer those that aren't chunky and can't fit next to things plugged into adjacent ports. I need at least 32GB and 3.0 isn't necessary but it would be nice.
 
If you care about writing to them and making them a bootable flash drive don't get any of the new sandisk flash drives. They show up as a local disk and not a removable storage.

I tried flipping the removable bit but had no luck. Some programs that you can use to write files to them as bootable will not see these drives. I prefer lexar and pny.
 
sze5003 said:
If you care about writing to them and making them a bootable flash drive don't get any of the new sandisk flash drives. They show up as a local disk and not a removable storage.

I tried flipping the removable bit but had no luck. Some programs that you can use to write files to them as bootable will not see these drives. I prefer lexar and pny.
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MS' DVD/USB tool, HP's floppy and fake floppy flash drive tool (forget the name), Pen Drive Linux's utility, and unetbootin's utility, see and use them fine. They also show up as USB-HDDs in any mobo form the last, oh, I don't know, 8 years, maybe?

For potentially bootable media, you want the RMB to be false, so that it does show up as a local disk, ensuring that the partition table can be read, the MBR can be read, and that you can always mount it async, if you want, and that a mobo that checks it won't deny you the USB-HDD boot option. Only with 2K/XP, where it assumes that a local disk is a cold-swap-only internal drive, should there be any problems. Luckily, though, most of the time, that setting is ignored, since it was set based on Windows behavior of the time, rather than being a useful setting. The only fixed disk is a modern Windows install should be the C: drive, and any profile-containing drives, if you went and made links for a SDD/HDD hybrid setup.

As for the OP, Corsair and patriot both have some nice USB flash drives that are particularly fast, able to saturate USB 2.0, and make good use of USB 3.0. Nothing on a regular retail shelf (Fry's, TD, cemra shops, etc., may be different) will be fast.
 
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Cerb said:
MS' DVD/USB tool, HP's floppy and fake floppy flash drive tool (forget the name), Pen Drive Linux's utility, and unetbootin's utility, see and use them fine. They also show up as USB-HDDs in any mobo form the last, oh, I don't know, 8 years, maybe?

For potentially bootable media, you want the RMB to be false, so that it does show up as a local disk, ensuring that the partition table can be read, the MBR can be read, and that you can always mount it async, if you want, and that a mobo that checks it won't deny you the USB-HDD boot option. Only with 2K/XP, where it assumes that a local disk is a cold-swap-only internal drive, should there be any problems. Luckily, though, most of the time, that setting is ignored, since it was set based on Windows behavior of the time, rather than being a useful setting. The only fixed disk is a modern Windows install should be the C: drive, and any profile-containing drives, if you went and made links for a SDD/HDD hybrid setup.

As for the OP, Corsair and patriot both have some nice USB flash drives that are particularly fast, able to saturate USB 2.0, and make good use of USB 3.0. Nothing on a regular retail shelf (Fry's, TD, cemra shops, etc., may be different) will be fast.
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That's weird because my 2 SanDisk cruzer 8gb, newer models are not seen by ms win 7 usb tool. Universal usb installer sees them if I check the force show all drives. Unibooten is what I've been using but it wasnt detecting them at first. I traded them to someone for other 8gb brands.
 
Honestly, someone told me they were all made from the same place so it doesn't really matter where or what you purchase.

Some companies do have warranties or guarantees on the back of their package, so read that before deciding to pay $2-3 less than what you'd normally pay for say, a Sandisk
 
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